Exploring Students’ Awareness of a Sustainability Challenge through Their Statistical Investigation and Projection

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10.2991/978-2-38476-434-1_9How to use a DOI?

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Statistical Investigation; Projection; Students’ Awareness; Sustainability Challenges

Abstract

The current curriculum of Indonesia, “Kurikulum Merdeka”, requires teachers to design and implement a co-curricular project themed on sustainable lifestyles. This is an excellent opportunity to engage students in using mathematics to investigate sustainability and environmental issues. This exploratory case study examined how a teacher designed and implemented a co-curricular project that required year 10 students to use statistics to become aware of a local sustainability challenge. Twenty-seven students were observed while working on a sustainability project, a focus group discussion was conducted, and a short, open-ended survey was given to students by the end of the project implementation. The data were analysed based on the green mathematics framework, especially how students made a projection using the data they collected. The findings show that the project allowed students to investigate a sustainability challenge through statistical processes: deciding how many people to interview (sampling), analysing the data they collected, and communicating their findings (interpretation). The investigation may have helped the students to understand the problem. In addition, by projecting the future situation of the problem, the students became aware of the sustainability challenge, which motivated their actions to address a specific issue. The findings suggest that integrating mathematics into sustainability projects can help students become aware of a sustainability challenge and how statistics can be used in a real-world situation. Such projects can empower students to take informed actions, laying the groundwork for future curriculum designs that blend statistical literacy with sustainability education to address a local sustainability challenge.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Soma Salim
AU  - Katie Makar
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/07/03
TI  - Exploring Students’ Awareness of a Sustainability Challenge through Their Statistical Investigation and Projection
BT  - Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Mathematics Education and Innovation (ISMEI 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 102
EP  - 110
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-434-1_9
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-434-1_9
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